Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 77
And Ivan killed the Snake, and then sat down again beneath the boarding.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: kill, sit down · To what, where: Snake, boarding
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 killed | cc |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Snake | det |
| 5 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sat | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 sat | advmod |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 sat | compound:prt |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 sat | advmod |
| 12 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 14 boarding | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boarding | det |
| 14 | boarding | boarding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | Ivan | the Snake | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | Ivan not said here | the boarding | then; again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath boarding=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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